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Ludwig Becker's Sketchbook

All of the images in this sketchbook are accompanied by notes and signed by Becker. This item is held in the Australian Manuscripts Collection, MS 13071.

 


Line of camel riders and line of horse riders on an empty plain

Crossing the Terrick-Terrick plains

29 August 1860
Watercolour, pen and ink on grey paper
12.5 x 17.7cm

No. 2 bearing south 

Empty plain with mountains in background

Terrick-Terrick hills, bearing N. by W.

30 August 1860
Watercolour on grey paper
12.3 x 17.2cm

No. 3 dist(ance): 13 miles; Mt. Hope, far above the horizon by the effect of Mirage, is 25 miles dist(ant). Trees & other objects near the horizon affected the Fata morgana.

Rocky foreground, hill in mid ground and mountains in the far distance

View from Mt. Hope: Pyramid Hill

1 September 1860
Watercolour on cream paper
12.6 x 17.8cm

No. 4 View from Mt. Hope. Pyramid hill bearing S. 30 W.

Hut at base of mountain

Station hut at Mt. Hope

2 September 1860
Watercolour and pencil on grey paper
12.5 x 17.2cm

No. 5. Station-hut at Mt Hope.

 
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